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Oh no! Here I go again, with my pen and my exercise book, inciting “hate speech” and “dehumanising” people.

— Tusiata Avia

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In the space of a few generations, my poem has traumatised the people who originally owned this land and their language almost disappears.

There is truly nothing more to think about.

My poem kidnaps children, puts them in state welfare institutions, abuses them and stops them speaking their own language.

The neighbours hear me writing a poem about colonisation and they yell: Stop that “race-baiting”, our kids are trying to sleep.

Now, I’m howling and ripping off my clothes and writing a poem which is “inciting violence” right through the walls of my house.

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